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utroque longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Germinis in corollæ 
fundo rudimentum depressum. 
NüRvALA, p. 49. tab. 42. 
Commeline in his note mentions the resemblance between this 
tree and the Tapia of Brazil described by Piso; but he only 
says, ** Putamus duas hasce arbores, si non easdem, saltem esse 
species persimiles." Plukenet (Alm. 34; Phyt. t. 197. f. 7.) 
described what he called Apioscorodon, on account of its having 
the smell of Garlic, and seems uncertain whether he should 
refer it to the Nürvala of India or Tapia of Brazil. He had also 
procured another plant from America, which he called Arbor 
Americana triphylla, numerosis staminulis, purpureis apicibus pre- 
ditis floris umbilicum occupantibus (Alm. 47; Phyt. t. 147. FO} 
which he also refers with doubt to the Nürvala ; thus probably 
implying that he considered all the three as belonging to the 
same genus. | 
In the Flora Zeylanica (211.) Linnæus mentions the Niirvala 
from a drawing taken in Ceylon by Hermann, and considered it 
as without doubt the same with the first plant of Plukenet, which 
in the Hortus Cliffortianus he had called Crateva inermis; but 
the Nürvala has not the smell of Garlic : folia manibus confricta 
suaveolentia—florum odor suavissimus et vinosus—fructus odoris 
vinosi: whilethe leaves of the American plant, as represented by 
Plukenet, are much broader in proportion to their length than 
those of the Nürvala. But further, Linneus along with the 
Tapia of Brazil and the Nürvala of India, joined the second 
plant of Plukenet, above mentioned, from Jamaica ; for although 
he does not quote Plukenet twice, he quotes a plant described 
by Sloane and Ray, which is no doubt the same with that of 
Plukenet ; and this also has the smell of Garlic. The younger 
Burman (FI. Ind. 109.), although Linnæus in the Species Plan- 
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